Panama
 Date: April 24, 2012
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 Date: April 11, 2012
On April 3, President Martinelli signed into law a bill that reestablishes the validity of Mineral Resource Mining Code, established in 1963 but which had been abolished by the Martinelli government in 2011. |
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Date: March 27, 2012
Paraiso for Sale is a PBS fea |
 Date: March 22, 2012
Ngöbe-Bugle leaders and Panama government officials reached an agreement last week that bans all mining in the Ngöbe-Bugle territory and requires community approval for any hydro-electric projects. |
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Date: March 21, 2012
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 Date: March 12, 2012
Please TAKE ACTION now and send an email to Panama officials urging them to respect the Ngöbe's right as Indigenous Peoples to elect their own leaders. |
 Date: March 7, 2012
Ngöbe authorities decided that dialogue should continue with the Panama government over the country's mining laws. |
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Date: February 8, 2012
Sincere thanks to everyone who sent urgent email messages to Panama’s president this week! Late Tuesday afternoon, Ngöbe leaders and government officials reached an agreement that put an end to protests that left two people dead and dozens of others injured.
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Date: February 6, 2012
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Date: November 10, 2011
The Ngöbe-Buglé Indigenous people took to the streets once more during the week of October 24th as a result of President Martinelli's failure to take their demands into account regarding changes to t |
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Date: September 2, 2011
The Ngöbe (also spelled Ngabe-Bukle) people of Panama held a series of peaceful demonstrations in Chiriqui,Veraguas, in the autonomous Indigenous region of the Ngöbe in Panama on September 1st to protest |
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Date: June 20, 2011
The Ngöbe Indigenous People, environmentalists, and human rights advocates in Panama are celebrating a decision by Panama’s National Public Service Authority (ASEP) that will prevent US-based AES Corporation from building a second dam on the Changuinola River. |
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Date: June 16, 2011
After six years of protests against construction of the Chan-75 dam, including a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the American engineering company AES and the Panamanian government closed the dam’s floodgates on the Changuinola river. |
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Date: May 12, 2011
Cultural Survival partners took the fight over a Panamanian dam to the company responsible in April, challenging executives of the AES Corporation over Indigenous rights and environmental violations at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Ngöbe community member Bernardino Morales joined representatives of the Center for Biological Diversity and the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic in condemning the company for its failure to follow through on promised compensation plans for Ngöbe communities that will be flooded and destroyed by the dam being built on the Changuinola River. |
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Date: April 13, 2011
After half a year of constant protests that were supported by Global Response campaigns, the Ngöbe people have proposed two bill |
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Date: March 28, 2011
After the protests against mining reform in the Mining Code, the government of Ricardo Martinelli will retake dialogues this Wednesday with the Coordinator for the Defense of Natural Resources and the Rights of the Ngöbe Buglé Peoples. |
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Date: March 13, 2011
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Date: March 9, 2011
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Date: March 4, 2011
Panama’s president Ricardo Martinelli announced today that he would revoke a reform to the country’s mining law that provoked thousands of Ngöbe Indigenous people to protest by blocking major highways over the past weekend. |
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Date: March 4, 2011
On Feb. 15 some 5,000 members of Panama’s Ngöbe-Buglé Indigenous group held |
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